... youthful Queen was openly and avowedly Whig. When a Whig Ministry under Lord Melbourne was defeated, a Tory Ministry under Sir Robert Peel refused to take office because the Queen would not consent to the dismissal of her Whig Ladies of the Bedchamber. Lord Melbourne ...

... two years after her acces sion. Party feeling ran high between the Whigs and Tories, and by the latter Queen Victoria was accused of unduly favouring their rivals, and especially the Whig Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. The Queen, unfortunately, had spoken ...

... of Prince Charlie with the following words woven with the Stewart tartan into its texture Let Tories guard their king while Whigs in halters swing. There is also a tin will-case dated 1610 which was found in a chimney. Another item of great- interest is ...